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I have seen Doubt, Dark Knight and Gran Torino and all three were very good. My personal favorite was Doubt, mainly for the drama. DK was a great action flick and Torino was excellent for demonstrating how relationships can change people.

"If every poor man is to come here and start requesting money for all his children, the applicants will never be satisfied and the nation's finances will collapse." Emperor Tiberius: Tacitus:Annals

I have seen Doubt, Dark Knight and Gran Torino and all three were very good. My personal favorite was Doubt, mainly for the drama. DK was a great action flick and Torino was excellent for demonstrating how relationships can change people.

notice how half the nominees have some sort of political/message hidden in their plots and how the themes are ALWAYS far left leaning??

It's been quite a while since the Academy took any notice of what movie viewers like or don't like in their nomination process. Of course, it's been quite a while since most people tuned in to watch the awards.

It's been quite a while since the Academy took any notice of what movie viewers like or don't like in their nomination process. Of course, it's been quite a while since most people tuned in to watch the awards.

Maybe there is some kind of mysterious correlation.

generally a best picture win is a sure sign in my book NOT to see the movie. Either the movie is too artsy to be worth watching or it has some far left agenda item it's driving which makes it worthless as well.

generally a best picture win is a sure sign in my book NOT to see the movie. Either the movie is too artsy to be worth watching or it has some far left agenda item it's driving which makes it worthless as well.

I'd say that "No Country for Old Men" challenges both those assumptions.

"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken